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Jim Lees “The Republican Party Gone Crazy?”

Jim Lees (Former WV Democrat Candidate for Governor)

Has the Republican Party gone completely nuts? I just finished watching Rick Perry refer to Governor Romney for the third time today as a “Vulture Capitalist” and I just finished watching Newt’s “independent PAC film “When Mitt Romney Came to Town” and I must question whether there is truly a Republican Party as a functioning organization that exists anymore. Since when do Republicans attack fellow Republicans for being capitalists? I am stunned to see the direction of the attacks being mounted by Perry, Gingrich, and Santorum against a fellow Republican candidate. The people in the President’s campaign must be doing cartwheels today as well as taking notes. So now the Republican Party has become the party of the occupy Wall Street movement? With differences among the candidates on tax policy, budget issues, social issues, foreign policy, and other legitimate issues up for debate why in the world are Republican candidates using Governor Romney’s record with Bain Capital and his venture capital background as the main attack point? Does anyone not see how this will play perfectly into the President’s re-election campaign? Has the Republican Party been completely co-opted by the white working-class tea party underclass to the point where capitalism and taking profits is now considered a sin and a disqualification to be President?

I am literally stunned at this latest turn of events in Republican politics. I never thought I would see a Republican candidate for President much less three of them attack a fellow Republican for being a greedy Wall-Street capitalist who dared to make capital investments and take profits. As a Democrat I fully understand that an argument can be made that in doing so innocent hard-working people are sometimes hurt and lose their jobs, but I never thought I would see the day when Republicans slam other Republicans for “immoral” profit-taking in a capitalist system. Wait……………was that screaming and cheering I heard coming from the President’s re-election headquarters?